What's the difference between votaress and votary?
Votaress
Definition:
(n.) A woman who is a votary.
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Votary
Definition:
(a.) Consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted; promised.
(n.) One devoted, consecrated, or engaged by a vow or promise; hence, especially, one devoted, given, or addicted, to some particular service, worship, study, or state of life.
Example Sentences:
(1) A weirdly prescient vignette in Cyril Connolly's Enemies Of Promise (1938) called Dunglass "a votary of the esoteric Eton religion, the kind of graceful, tolerant, sleepy boy who is showered with favours and crowned with all the laurels, who is liked by the masters and admired by the boys without any apparent exertion on his part, without experiencing the ill-effects of success himself or arousing the pangs of envy in others.
(2) I became a votary of the Boris cult,” the justice secretary wrote in 2005.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest V&A Collection Andrea Riccio Satyr and Satyress (1510-1520) V&A, London In Greek and Roman mythology satyrs are goat-legged followers of the wine god Bacchus, hairy votaries of sex, dance and ecstasy.
(4) A sign, perhaps, that the votaries of the free market remain fearful of any challenges from below.
(5) Those sober, suited, serious people, who now pronounce themselves the only adults in the room , turn out to be demented utopian fantasists, votaries of a fanatical economic cult.
(6) Those sober, suited, serious people turn out to be demented utopian fantasists, votaries of a fanatical economic cult All this is but a recent chapter in the long tradition of subordinating human welfare to financial power.